I just added a special .ZIP file download to the Custom Sprite Pack Downloads page. What’s in it? Nearly every custom sprite, mini-logo and portrait you’ve ever seen on this site and a that you haven’t seen. Seriously.

I don’t know what the future of this site will be if SOPA, Protect IP or any other misguided bill of that sort passes, so I figured I’d bundle everything up into a .ZIP and let you save a copy of those pixels. Anyone who downloaded this from the PCS board doesn’t have the NameGFX I just added with the regular and customized in-game nametags from X-Men, SFA3 and Vampire Savior.

ScrollBoss is on semi-pause until SOPA and ProtectIP pass or fail their trials of becoming bills. ScrollBoss will close temporarily if either bill passes and Illmosis will be purged of its fan art. Even if the bills fail, I’m not sure if I want to make or even show old fan work of companies that allowed their name to be on the official SOPA support list (a link to the current PDF can be found on this page). Trust me, ScrollBoss will live on one way or another. Thanks for visiting and have a great 2012!

edit: I forgot to post a link to this. Just a lil’ something I’ve been working on for a while.

Do you enjoy fan art, game graphics, screenshots, game mods, sprite edits, tribute videos, game walkthroughs and anything of that nature? If so, time may be running out for you to do so. There are two bills currently being discussed in the US House Judiciary Committee that claim to be about fighting internet piracy, but many experts say that companies would gain the power to block US citizens from visiting sites they claim to be offenders of copyright law.

How would the U.S. government handle things? ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security) shut down five websites on the claim that they were counterfeits and bootleggers. As reported by TechDirt and the New York Times, one site was Dajaz.com, a site that provided downloads to songs purposefully leaked by the record companies for promotional purposes.

The abuse I’ve mentioned is what they can do without SOPA or Protect IP, so imagine what they’ll get away with if this bill passes. They already have the Chappellian “Shoot first, sprinkle crack on the corpse later” method down to a science when it comes to using the DMCA and site-specific kill switches. The fact that I’ll have to shut down this site if the bill passes isn’t the main reason I’m bothered by this. Many of us have turned to the internet because we don’t like what most media companies are pushing in our direction. Creative people and independent reporters are using it to avoid dealing with the same shady companies that have been spending money to push these bills and own the news channels which won’t tell you the same stories I’ve linked to here. Piracy may be hurting them, but their biggest problem is how the internet is giving us options. No, it’s not a c-o-n-spiracy as much as it’s the kind of typical corporate dick-move you’ll see happen when groups think a form of technology, like VCR’s, will threaten their money flow. They’re paying a lot of money to screw up the internet in the hopes that you’ll run into their open, greedy arms after they close off every other option you have now.

There was an update earlier this week with the Baroness sprite pack, a Passion Tanaka sprite and other additions to the Image Generators. I just added Endless Duck to the generators and updated the Variable/Create-a-scene options with five more backgrounds: Bison, Chun-Li and Dhalsim from Street Fighter Alpha 2 along with Final Fight’s Steel Cage and Sodom’s fighting ring.

Custom Sprites: Passion Tanaka was added to the PrimeOp gallery page and more Baroness sprites were added to the G.I.JOE page. Speaking of Baroness sprites…

Custom Sprite Downloads – I added the VERY incomplete Baroness sprite set from the long-dead project. I also added some of the sprites from this project to the G.I.JOE Custom Sprite Page and now has her own character slot in the GFX image Generators.

There will be another small update soon to make up for having to rush this one out.

BTW: Elevator Action Deluxe fans, don’t forget that the free DLC Time Gal character is now available along with Sayo-Chan and an extra level.